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~ Jean Baptiste Racine (Author), George Dillon (Translator) "This play, the third of Racine's tragedies, was first given before the court at Versailles, in the Queen's apartments, November 17, 1667; it opened the..." (more)
Key Phrases: Enter Nero, Enter Orestes, Enter Phaedra (more...)
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"George Dillon has elected for speed and clarity; his speed, of which short quotations can impart no notion, is his equivalent for Racine's impetuous dexterity with the French Alexandrine. . . . Momentum, in such a version, is everything. It stands as a homage to Racine's strength of construction . . . and to the expressive power of his themes, on which Mr. Dillon's prefaces have eloquent and sensible things to say."—Hugh Kenner, National Review

"His literal and flexible blank verse actually forms the nearest thing in English to the longer-measured rhymed couplets of Racine; even an ordinary reading aloud of so faithful a rendering provides something of the experience that Proust described."—Elliott Coleman, Poetry

"A superb introduction . . . flawless translations, infused with poetic fire and charm."—Margaret Carpenter, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot


About the Author

George Dillon (1906-1968) was the editor of Poetry and author of two collections of poems, Boy in the Wind and The Flowering Stone. In 1931 he won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Dillon was co-translator, with Edna St. Vincent Millay, of Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil.

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  • Paperback: 212 pages
  • Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (September 15, 1961)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0226150771
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226150772
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #432,161 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This play, the third of Racine's tragedies, was first given before the court at Versailles, in the Queen's apartments, November 17, 1667; it opened the next day in Paris, in the venerable Bourgogne palace, where the company of factors had their theater. Read the first page
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Enter Nero, Enter Orestes, Enter Phaedra, Exit Burrus, Narcissus Sir, Exit Orestes, Hippolytus Madam, Hippolytus Phaedra, Junia Sir, Andromache Alas, Burrus Sir, Enter Burrus, Enter Oenone, Enter Theramenes, Exit Nero, Pyrrhus Madam
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good play, great translation, November 25, 2003
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Racine's "Phaedra" is based on Euripedes' "Hippolytus", and it is a very respectable retelling of the story. Racine writes especially well in the imagery of light and darkness struggling in Phaedra's soul, which he puts in her first and final lines.

The translation by George Dillon is excellent.

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